Crisis & opportunity [ sustainability in American agriculture
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln, Nebraska :
University of Nebraska Press ,
c2008
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| Series: | Our sustainable future
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Crisis and opportunity in American agriculture
- 2. Why we should stop promoting industrial agriculture
- 3. Corporate agriculture and family farms
- 4. The corporatization of America
- 5. Rediscovering agriculture and new hope for farming
- 6. Farming in harmony with nature and society
- 7. Reclaiming the sacred in food and farming
- 8. Do we really need to define sustainable agriculture?
- 9. Foundational principles of soils, stewardship, and sustainability
- 10. Economics of sustainable farming
- 11. The renaissance of rural America
- 12. Walking the talk of sustainable agriculture
- 13. Survival strategies for small farms
- 14. Marketing in the niches for sustainability
- 15. Local organic farms save farmland and communities
- 16. The triple bottom line of farming in the future
- 17. The real costs of globalization
- 18. Redirecting government policies for agricultural sustainability
- 19. The new American food system
- 20. American agriculture after fossil energy